CVE-2025-54864 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-54864: Hydra missing authentication when triggering evaluations through GitHub and Gitea plugins

Vendor Nixos
Product hydra
Weakness CWE-306 · Missing auth
Published August 12, 2025
Last update August 12, 2025

CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Hydra is a continuous integration service for Nix based projects. Prior to commit f7bda02, /api/push-github and /api/push-gitea are called by the corresponding forge without HTTP Basic authentication. Both forges do however feature HMAC signing with a secret key. Triggering an evaluation can be very taxing on the infrastructure when large evaluations are done, introducing potential denial of service attacks on the host running the evaluator. This issue has been patched by commit f7bda02. A workaround involves blocking /api/push-github and /api/push-gitea via a reverse proxy.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 12, 2025 CVE published
August 12, 2025 Record updated